Deer Park Community Consolidated School District 82 News

Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36, Mercer County School District 404 and Geneseo Community Unit School District 228 are area districts listed among those that received the lowest financial ratings in Illinois by the Illinois StateBoard of Education

School districts in East Moline, Kewanee and Hampton were among those in Illinois that paid the least in penalties since 2005 for spiking employee salaries to boost outgoing teachers' retirement benefits, according to data obtained from the Teachers Retirement System of Illinois.